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note Of sympathy for those worse of than I,
and was general confident Of all those who
had trouble, and once in while was strong
enough to make garment for that poor fam
lily in the back lane" Pass on to another
throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven?
81 was the mother who raised whole family
Of children for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian me-
chanics, Christian wives, and have had full
reward Of all my toll" Let US pass on in
the circles of thrones 81 had a Sabbath
school class, and they were always on my
God, and am waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one Of heaven
on this other throne I'm time of bitter per-
secution I owned a house in Damascus,
house on the wall A man who preached
Christ was bounded from street to street and
hid him from the assasSins, and when found
them breaking in my house and could no
longer keep him safely, advised him to flee
for his life, and a basket was let down over
the wall with the maltreated man in it and l
was one who helped hold the rope" And !
said: "Is that all?' And he answered: THAT
is all.n And while I was lost in amaze
ment heard strong voice that sounded as
though it might once have been hoarse
from many exposures and triumphant as
though it might have belonged to one OF
the martyrs, and it said: "Not many mighty,
not many noble are called, but God hath
chosen the weak things of the world to con-
found the things which are mighty, and base
things of the world and things which are
despised hath God chosen, yea and things
which are not to bring to naught things
which are, that no flesh should glory in His
presence" And looked to see from whence
elc voice come, and 10! it was the very one
who had said: Through window in bas-
ket was let down by the wall"
HencefOrth think of nothing as inSipnifi-
cant. A little thing may decide your all. A
Cunarder put out from England for New
York. 1t was well equipped, but in putting
up stove in the pilot box a nail was driven
too near the compass. You know how that
nail would affect the compass. The ships
officer, deceived by that distracted compass
put the ship 200 miles off her course, and sud-
denly the man on the lookout cried: Land
ho!' and the ship was halted within a few
yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals.
A sixpenny nail came near wrecking Gu.
harder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies.
A minister seated in Boston at his table,
lacking word puts his hand behind his
head and tilts back his chair to think, and the
ceiling falls and crushes the table and would
have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica,
at night by the light of an insect, called the
pice hundred feet. F. ". Robertson, the
celebrated English clergyman, said that he
entered the ministry from train Of circum.
stances started by the barking of a dog. Had
the wind blown one way on certain day, the
Spanish Inquisition would have been estab.
lished in England; but it blew the other way,
and that dropped the accursed institution
with 5000 tons Of shipping to the bottom Of
the sea, or flung the splintered logs on the
rocks.
Nothing unimportant in your life or mine
Three noughts placed on the right side of the
figure one make thousand, and six noughts
on the right side Of the figure one million,
and our nothingness placed on the right side
may be augmentation illimitable. All the
ages of time and eternity affected by the bas
ket let down from Damascus balcony.